Hello! I Would Like To Warn Everyone Of An Experience My Roommate And I Have Just Had, In Case I Can

It's almost incredible how every single sexist stereotype men throw at us isn't just patently untrue but also straight up projection. Like the bad driver stereotype, projecting so hard that even insurance companies recognize it, or the stereotype that women talk more, when every single studies show that men talk more, they just perceive women as talking more as soon as they do 1/3 of the talking.

So here's a new one. As a woman you might have observed it already, I'd say it's especially glaring in split finances couples with children, most that I know the guy's income is just for him but the woman's is hers and the kids'. So here, confirmed.

(the extract is from The Cost of Sexism / The Double X Economy by Linda Scott, and the mentioned report can be found in Gilman and Lawson, The Power of the Purse)

SOS

I know we all think it's funny that Facebook and Instagram are down but I think it should be noted that these large-scale cyber attacks are most likely the result of people trying to bury information that was uncovered in the Pandora papers yesterday

This twitter trending summarizes it quite well. This is the biggest undercover investigation since the Panama papers and it covers the same premise. It uncovered large quantities of unreported wealth and spending by the richest people in the world. The cyber attacks against these large social media and communication apps are most likely an attempt to divert attention away from this. For more information look at the articles I linked below:

ICIJ

Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak - ICIJ

The Pandora Papers reveal the inner workings of a shadow economy that benefits the wealthy and well-connected at the expense of everyone els

BBC News

A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak - BBC News

A massive leak of documents reveal hidden wealth, tax avoidance and in some cases, money laundering.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE ABOUT THE NIGHT WITCHES DAMNIT.

BADASS LADIES BOMBING THE SHIT OUTA NAZI’S. WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE??

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

The thing with statistics - via

October 3, 2022 - Protesting Iranian schoolgirls kick their pro-government school director out of their schoolgrounds. Students across Iran have been occupying their schools in protest after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. [video]

Mahsa Amini was 'tortured and insulted' before death in police custody in Iran, her cousin says

Mahsa Amini, the young woman whose death in police custody has prompted mass protests in Iran, was “tortured and insulted” before she died, her cousin has said.

In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Erfan Mortezaei told Sky News about what happened to his cousin and how she has become the “voice of the anger of the Iranian people”.

He called on the international community to hold the Iranian regime responsible for her death.

He is the first member of Miss Amini’s family to speak to Western media since her death in police custody in Tehran on 16 September.

In the hours before she died, the 22-year-old had been detained by the country’s morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely.

Outcry over her death has boiled over into some of the most serious protests in the country for years, with dozens of people killed as authorities seek to clamp down on unrest.

Mr Mortezaei is a political activist and Peshmerga fighter living in Iraq near the Iranian border.

Speaking to Sky News in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, he said Miss Amini had gone shopping in Tehran with relatives including her brother, Ashkan.

He said they were confronted by the morality police: “When they saw Mahsa and others they decided her hijab was not correct.

"Ashkan tried to explain to them they were not in their home city, and were strangers in Tehran, so please take that into consideration and pleaded not to be taken away.

"In the struggle the police officers pepper-sprayed Ashkan in the face and forced Mahsa into the van and take her to the morality police station.”

Mr Mortezaei said a witness who was in the van has told the family what happened next.

“During the journey to the police station she was tortured and insulted,” he said.

After arriving at the police station Miss Amini began to lose her vision and fainted.

He said it took 30 minutes for ambulance workers to reach her and an hour and a half before she got to hospital.

“There is a report from Kasra hospital [in Tehran] that says effectively by the time she reached the hospital she was already dead from a medical point of view.

"She suffered a concussion from a blow to the head.”